Suitable for MS Windows 2000 or higher (Traditional Chinese or English versions with East Asian Language support enabled)

Hakka phrase prediction is not implemented yet,

but like to hear comments, bug reports etc. sofar.

Regards,

Thomas

Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 7:26 am

by dylanwhsung

Hi Thomas,

I've used the input, and find a lot of characters as boxes in the input character selection window, even though I do have the Simsun Founder Extended font for Extension B characters. It is only after inputting into Notepad set to the Simsun FE font that the character becomes visible. This seems to be a problem in the window itself rendering four byte unicode chars, probably. Just a guess.

And the font, is unfortunately, very ugly

Cheers,
Dyl.

Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 7:50 am

by tfc.chin

dylanwhsung wrote:Hi Thomas,

I've used the input, and find a lot of characters as boxes in the input character selection window, even though I do have the Simsun Founder Extended font for Extension B characters. It is only after inputting into Notepad set to the Simsun FE font that the character becomes visible. This seems to be a problem in the window itself rendering four byte unicode chars, probably. Just a guess.

And the font, is unfortunately, very ugly

Cheers,Dyl.

Hi Dylan,

Thanks for your comments. The rendering of the ExtB chars using Simsun FE in the IME itself was correct when I tested it. Might be that my system configuration is different. I will test everything on a blank system and figure out what's wrong.
Could you indicate whether you tested it on an English or Chinese Windows system.

Thanks for your info and screenshot. From the shot I can see that it handles the extension B chars correctly (it tries to display one single char instead of two surrogate pairs) but cannot find or set the proper font.
The input method switches to an user-defined font (Simsun FE) when encountering ext. B chars, defined in a registry setting. There might be something wrong when the application fetches the font name from the registry or font names between versions of Simsun FE differ.

I hope to provide a solution soon.

Thomas

Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 7:50 am

by tfc.chin

tfc.chin wrote:I hope to provide a solution soon.

Thomas

The CJK extension B display problems in the Hakka and Cantonese input method editors should be fixed now. There are new versions for download.